The vortex is ubiquitous in nature, spanning from the galaxy, ocean flow, to phyllotaxis. In electromagnetic wave, the vortex can be found in spiral wavefront profiles, representing the orbital ...

The regular arrangement of leaves around a plant's stem, called phyllotaxis, has for centuries attracted the attention of philosophers, mathematicians and natural scientists; however, to date, studies ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Using the plant model Arabidopsis, the relationship between day length, the size of the shoot apical meristem, and the robustness of ...

Bolle's phyllotactic theory is enhanced here in the light of recent works which underline the importance of vascular organization in the determination of phyllotactic patterns. It is emphasized that ...

Next time you go outside, take a minute to look at your local leaf arrangements. You’ll probably notice a few different patterns. In basil plants, each leaf is about 90 degrees — a quarter-turn — from ...

The seeds of a sunflower, the spines of a cactus, and the bracts of a pinecone all form whirling spiral patterns. Remarkable for their regularity and beauty, these natural structures also show some ...

The spiral pattern of an Aloe polyphylla plant at the University of California Botanical Garden. Stan Shebs via Wikicommons under CC BY-SA 3.0 To the untrained eye, plants may appear to grow rather ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The majority of plants have leaves, petals and seed structures in spirals that follow the Fibonacci sequence, meaning each sequence is the sum of the ...

Young Alan Turing might have been willing to join his friends in a game of field hockey but probably wasn’t the player to ...